About the Author
Dariush Derakhshani is a Visual Effects Supervisor and Head of CG for Radium|ReelFX - Santa Monica, a creative and design studio with offices in Dallas, Texas, and Santa Monica, California. Dariush has been working in CG for more than 13 years and teaching classes in CG and effects production for close to 11. He is the best-selling author of a handful of books, including the popular Introducing Maya series.
Dariush started using AutoCAD software in his architecture days and then migrated to using 3D programs when his firm’s principal architects needed to show their clients’ design work on the computer. Starting with Alias PowerAnimator version 6, which he encountered when he enrolled in the University of Southern California ...
